Welcome back! It’s been a little over a week since I went insane and quit my job with nothing else lined up, and my unemployment adventure continues. As promised, I’ll let you in on my musings and lessons learned this week: Your friends love you. Folks have come out of

I have a dirty little secret: I’ve never been unemployed… until now. Today marks the first day in 11 years that I haven’t had a job. My feelings are complicated: freedom, anxiety, denial. But as is my wont, I’ll chronicle my foray into unemployment here for you, because I love

I’ve got some awesome news! We received a grant from the Civic Joy Fund to put out a literary magazine celebrating SF and acting to counter the stupid “Doom Loop” narrative. It’s a gift to the people of San Francisco. And after months of working on this project it’s now available

He wants your job…or your soul. Got a question about how to be a polite Broke-Ass? Email Half-Price Headliner with your queries and get schooled on how to be proper-like. Q: I am looking for a job and was wondering if it’s rude to ask my friends to hook me

Yeah, we know ‘“ unemployment sucks. It’s always sucked: Bereft of cash and inundated with spare time, the life of the unemployed can be said to resemble an almost Biblical purgatory. But what if that’s not the case? What if, in an effort to maintain our sanity, we put a

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A guy is without a job. Constantly searching and prodding and looking around, he has had variable success finding something to do. He sends in applications, sometimes unsolicited, and invariably with crossed fingers.  Sometimes this is a process robotic – cover letter, resume, malaise.

Life seems somehow more unfair when you are unemployed. There are the obvious things like the whole lack of money issue, which certainly puts a damper on obvious indulgences like feeding yourself and imbibing alcohol. Even if the money is there, with no job, its hard finding reasons to drink

Right now, it’s hard not to want a shot of something if you stop to think about the economy. Especially if you’re unemployed (or under employed) and you’ve can only afford tall boys of King Cobra with your liquor budget. The Delancy has your back. Every Monday is “Laid off

Being broke can be rough but being unemployed in this city is one of the most stressful and defeating experience a  New Yorker can face.  There’s a constant needling sense of failure, desperation and fear. Every minute you spend not looking for a job is a guilt-filled one and losing